December 1943

Wednesday, December 8th


Eastern Front

SOUTHERN SECTOR

Lead elements of the XLVIII Panzer reaches the Teterev River, having inflicted considerable losses upon the 60th and 13th Armies of the 1st Ukrainian Front. The advance continues in the directin of Malin but Soviet resistance slowed its pace.

Znamenka is isolated by the 5th Guards Tank Army but the XL Panzer Corps launches a fierce counterattack in an effort to relieve the town.


[ December 7th - December 9th]